The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-25

The founder OF inc Orohu institute,
Who is now living so quietly and unob-
rusively among his fellow.citizens, and
was the originator and father of the
voluntary organ zed emigration, which
The London Times said was "the great
est American movement Of the age"
He sent the saw-mill and the grist-mill
to fight slavery at its own doors, and
won the battle. In two years he had
two free state men to one slave state
man in Kansas, and the institution of
slavery was forever doomed in that ter
fitory before the slaveocracy of Mis-
souri, had fully realized the magnitude
and power of the movement inaugural
ed, and directed by an unpretentions
citizen of Worcester. The slave power
was invited to a fair and open contest
with free labor, and they retired sui
lenly from the struggle, contenting
themselves with Offering rewards,
which were posted along the HIGHWAYS
and advertised in the newspapers, for
he head of Eli Thayer, whose organ
zed emigration scheme throttcd slave
" in the yer, zenith Of its power.
From Kansas the great NJ tator Of
popular sovereignty turned his atten-
ton to the old Dominion, and organic
ed and founded the town of Ccredo in
West Virginia He preached popular
sovereignty there. too, and Governor
Wise and twelve OF the newspapers of
the state Endorsed his plan.
In conversation with Hon. Eli Thayer,
the other evening, he remarked to me
that he honestly believed "ihe death
knell of slavery was contained in the
charter Of the Em'grrr Aid company,
the same rs the acorH ro.tGins the oak.
/ The Shareholders found that thcy could
organize no more slave states, and that
if the en- gration movement were kept
mp, they could not hold what they had.
Through chagrn and despair con-
tnucd the speaker "the siyeocraoy
was driven into rebellion, and / believe
il never would have come ii the Emil
grant Ad company could have had the
amount of capital it was originally in
tended to raise We could have kept
| Virginia in the union, and without Rob
rrt f.. Lee, Stoncwall Jackson. and the
two Johnsons, where would the seccs-
sionsts be?''
| asked ''thc king of popular soycr-
eighty what he thought of the aboli-
tionists who claimed to have done SO
much IN striking of the mancles from
the black man, and he answered me
substantially rs follows: with all
their prophetic wisdom, they never
foretold one event which came to pass.
with all their keenness of vision, they
never saw anything as il was. They
advocated dissolution of the union as
~ only means of destroying slavery.
.ey lived TO see slavery destroyed, not
only without their aid, but against their
protest. while the union was preserved
and made permanent and harmonious.
No fraternity of montebanks ever lived
so long or worked so hard or did so lit
tie. Why, if they had come on my
side, instead of being utterly oppnscd TO
my immgrat on plan. should have
been whipped in Kansas and slavery
given newlease of power. They were
the original seccSsionsts, and would
have dismembered the union long be-
fore the shot was fired ut Sumter If
they could have had their way. They
attacked the American church, the
American congress. and everybody who
did not subscribe To their doctrine. At
the annual meeting of the American
Ant-Slavery society held May 4. 1913.
the following resolution was passed:
Resolred, That, recognizing as we do with
profound gratitude the wonderful progress our
cause has made during the last eighteen years,
and yet considering the eiTort now making 10
impress the community with the idea that the
church aud the land eau aud will abolish
slavery by its own virtue; and that the parties
are able and willing to grapple with the evil,
this society deems 1t duty 10 relterate its
convictions that the only exodus for the slave
out OF his present house Of bondage is over the
ruins of the present American church and the
present American union.
'In 1885," continued Mr. Thayer,
burning over the pages of a scrap-book.
.'when every member of the Emigrant
Aid company was thoroughly convinc-
ed that Kansas aud Nebraska were pre-
served for the column Of free states.